Display-package.



PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

J. P. HUMMEL.

DISPLAY PACKAGE.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 6, 1899.

NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

JOHANN P. HUMMEL, OF MILWVAUKEE, \VTSCONSI'N.

DISPLAY- PACKAGE.

BPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 766,356, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed November 6, 1899. Serial No- 736.038. (No modelJ 1'0 (all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, J OHANN P. HUMMEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of W'isconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Packages; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to facilitate display and sale of various commodities in minor packages or otherwise and to prevent accidental loss or pilfering of the merchandise, said invention consisting in the simple economical construction and arrangement of parts constituting the device hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure l of the drawings represents a perspective view of a device in accordance with my invention broken at one end; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse central section of the same, and Fig. 3 a detail horizontal section indicated by line 8 3 in the preceding figure.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates each of a series of angular strips of suitable material arranged parallel to each other at predetermined distances apart to constitute end stays and intermediate partitions of a box having its top open between the strips, a closed bottom, and at least one partly-open side, the material B employed to complete the package being cardboard cemented or otherwise rigidly secured to said strips, it being preferable to have said cardboard in one piece.

The package is herein shown as having vertical front openings between end stays and partition-strips A, the material B being cut to form a heading Z), footing c, and vertical flanges (Z, the latter extending inward beyond the strips. However, it is practicable to form another front opening similar to those aforesaid between the partition-strips when desirable.

The package is provided with a rear swingle'g (J, so that it may be set up similar to an easel, and the outward play of this leg is limited by a strip D of pliable material connecting it and the bottom of said package. The

i leg C herein shown is an integral part of the cardboard material B aforesaid, and a strip E of like material is made fast upon the inner side of said leg to stifi'en same. By the cuts necessary to form leg C from the cardtral opening is obtained in said package.

Minor packages F of uniform angular dimensions are shown as having snug lit in the compartments of the major package above specified and are pushed up and out at the open top of said major package when wanted, pressure being exerted by a. thumb or finger of the operator inserted in a front or back opening of said major package against a minor package. If a compartment of the major package be filled with minor packages, pressure and upward movement of a thumb or linger of the operator on any one of said minor packages partly exposed through a front or back opening in said major package will cause the one that is uppermost to come within reach out of the top opening of said compartaforesaid minor packages may be one by one pushed up and out of said opening.

The major package herein shown is organized with reference to being a receptacle for one dozen minor packages or parcels of merchandise; but the dimensions may be indelinitely varied in practice according to the demands of the trade, and it is just as practicable to organize said major package so as to have the apertures for insertion and removal of the merchandise at one of the side edges instead of at the top edge.

The major package is a convenient device in which to supply minor packages or parcels of merchandise to the trade, and it also serves as a means for displaying said merchandise on a store shelf, counter, or show-case, the front of said major package affording a field for more or less ornamental advertising and explanatory matter relative to the goods displayed.

Owing to-the fact that the minor packages or parcels tit snug in the compartments of the major package they cannot become accidentally lost therefrom, and because of the time and effort required to dislodge one or more ment, and thereafter the remainder of the board material B of the package a rear cenof said minor packages or parcels they are not liable to be pilfered.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A display-package for minor packages of uniform angular dimensions in series and which consists of parallel vertical strips at a predetermined interval apart, and a covering on the strips forming the bottom, back, ends, and front of an angular box open at the top between said strips and having a front opening less wide throughout than the distance between said strips.

2. A display-package for minor packages of uniformly-angular dimensions in series and which consists of parallel vertical strips at predetermined intervals apart, a covering on the strips forming the bottom, back, ends and front of an angular box having a plurality of openings at the top between said strips and a plurality of front openings each between a pair of the aforesaid strips but of less width throughout than a top opening, and means K J. P. HUMMEL. Witnesses:

N. E. OLIRHANT, B. C. RoLoFF. 

